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By Abbey Jaroma | Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Matt Fradd, a popular Catholic speaker who said he has dedicated his life to fighting pornography, teamed up with longtime youth minister Mark Hart, known as the “Bible Geek,” and LifeTeen to develop an app designed to assist young people find victory in their battle against porn. “I worked as an apologist at […]
National
By Catholic News Service
ST. LOUIS – The U.S. bishops join with other religious leaders and civic leaders “in pledging to work for healing and reconciliation” after a series of racial conflicts “that have taken place around our beloved country,” said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky. The archbishop, who is the president of the U.S. Conference of […]
Local
By Ashleigh Buyers
If you are one of the hundreds of commuters who brave the Northern Virginia roads every morning, then you might have noticed five men in red jackets cycling beside you on your way to work. Biking 4 Vocations, a team of cycling priests and seminarians took to Route 1 June 5 on their way to […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
Like Easter, Corpus Christi is a moveable feast. It’s celebrated the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, which this year was June 4. Most parishes push the celebration to the following Sunday. To accommodate their students, St. Timothy School in Chantilly celebrated the feast June 5. Students from the school, with the help of Amy Powers, a […]
Columnists
By Mary Beth Bonacci
Sometimes the opening is the hardest part. I’ve been sitting here for quite some time, trying to come up with a clever or profound or even just passable way to open an article about Bruce/Caitlin Jenner. It isn’t easy. And so I turn to Facebook for distraction. I find no distraction, but rather that Vanity […]
National
By Catholic News Service
HAGATNA, Guam — Guam’s archbishop said a judge’s June 5 decision legalizing same-sex marriage in the U.S. territory was “a defeat” not only “for Christian principles” but “for our island and the whole of humanity.” “The recognition of a same-sex union, as marriage, destroys the basic fabric of society, and will destroy human beings in […]
Columnists
By Elizabeth Foss
There are days (and nights, lots of nights) when mothers feel as if they are toiling in obscurity. Who sees the things that require all our time and attention? Who hears us begging a baby to go to sleep because the clock is ticking into the wee hours of the morning and our sleep time […]
Local
By Dave Borowski
By all measures, Lydia Ann Kraiger is an outstanding young woman. Throughout middle and high school, Kraiger, 16, was active in her parish, St. Leo the Great Church in Fairfax, and her community. She volunteered at the Arlington diocesan WorkCamp, maintained a 4.07 GPA at Oakton High School and has been member of the National […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Efforts to convince people that the differences between male and female are simply social conventions, which limit individual freedom, ignore the fact that men and women need each other in order to understand themselves, Pope Francis said. “The differences between man and woman are not of the order of opposition or subordination, […]
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By Julia Willis | Catholic Herald Intern
Pulling into a parking spot at Tall Timbers Marina in St. Mary’s County, Md., March 27, Michael Clark was looking forward to spending a peaceful weekend with his wife. But what initially started as a “minivacation” quickly became an emergency when the varsity swim coach at Marymount University in Arlington realized a woman had fallen […]
